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Serbia’s airline names plane after Djokovic

Serbia’s new national airline, Air Serbia, began flying Saturday with a plane named after favourite son Novak Djokovic, the men’s…

Commuters stranded as BRT workers boycott work

Damilare Okunola Commuters in Lagos, western Nigeria, were stranded, Saturday morning, when workers with the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT scheme…

ECOWAS approves single customs bloc

Leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on Friday to implement a single customs tariff…

Oshiomhole commissions 100 taxis for ex-Okada riders

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the southern Nigerian state of Edo has commissioned one hundred units of Suzuki cars procured by…

Pre-Paid Meters: Indigenous Firms Partner Ikeja DISCO

Six indigenous pre-paid meters manufacturing companies on Friday said they were partnering the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company on meter procurement…

Britain’s economy gathers speed

Britain’s economy grew at the fastest rate for more than three years during the third quarter, official data showed on…

JMG To Handle MTN’s N1.3bn Network Upgrade

MTN Nigeria has awarded a £6million (N1.3billion) contract for the modernization of it mobile communications network in the country to…

MTN’s 3rd quarter growth flat

South Africa’s MTN Group on Thursday reported a slower-than-expected one per cent increase in subscribers for the third quarter. The…

Fayemi flags off building of 5,000 houses in Ekiti

The Government of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti says it will build 5,000 low cost housing units before the…

Nigeria votes N58.6billion for dockyard, ship building facilities

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N58.6 billion contract for the construction of ship building facilities and dockyard in…

South African firm to debut with smartphone made in Africa

A South African company hopes to rival the likes of Samsung and Nokia with home-grown smartphones tailored to African needs.…

MEND claims Warri Refinery fire

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt & Jethro Ibileke The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)has claimed responsibility for the…

Oduah’s car scandal: Aviation authorities now blame APC

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s aviation authorities on Tuesday gave a different version of a story involving the purchase of two…

Forte Oil profit soars

Forte Oil Plc on Monday announced a N2.7 billion profit after tax for the nine months ended 30 September. According…

Alao Loses Bid To Quash N1.1b Fuel Subsidy Fraud Charge

An Ikeja High Court on Monday dismissed an application by an oil marketer, Abdullahi Alao, seeking to quash the fuel…

Oduah’s N255m Cars Costlier Than 5 Obama Limousines

Nigeria’s embattled Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, could have easily bought an Eclipse 500 private jet with the whopping…

Demand Implementation Of Oil Sector Audit Report —EITI

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, an international body that preaches transparency in the management of oil, gas and mineral resources,…

Uche Pedro of Bella Naija wins Media Entrepreneur Award

British Council and The Future Awards Africa have announced Uche Pedro as winner of the International Young Media Entrepreneur of…

Group urges Jonathan sell Oduah’s armored cars

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to “urgently order the…

Shell lifts force majeure on Nigerian oil exports

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell on Friday lifted a force majeure on crude oil exports from Nigeria after repairing a supply…

N255m car scandal: Aviation authorities change story

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s aviation authorities on Friday changed an earlier version of a story surrounding the purchase of two…

Oduah, car scandal minister sets up panel to probe leak

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s embattled minister of aviation, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, has set up a panel to investigate how…

NDLEA Arrests 20 Drug Suspects

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday said it has arrested 20 persons, including a 27-year old woman,…

Omotosho Power Plant Ready

The Managing Director, China Machinery Engineering Corporation, Mr Liu Zhao-Long, on Friday said that the Omotosho 500 Mega Watts (MW)…

Ekiti gets N48b foreign investment

Governor Kayode Fayemi of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti said that the state got an inflow of investments worth…

Fashola commissions Alausa power plant

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has commissioned the 10.4MW Alausa Independent Power Project, IPP, built at a…

Court Enforces Order On Mainstreet Bank

Operations at Mainstreet Bank in Makurdi were interrupted for 30 minutes on Thursday when policemen and court bailiffs came to…

N255m Bullet-Proof BMW Cars: Stella Oduah Must Go

Nigerian activists and aviation analysts have called on the embattled minister of aviation, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, to resign, following…

Nigerian community rejects ExxonMobil N2.5b offer for spill

The Eket Federal Constituency Vanguard, in Akwa Ibom state, southern Nigeria has rejected the N2.5 billion oil spill compensation offered…

Switzerland breaks seal on banking secrecy

PARIS(AFP) – Switzerland broke the seal on its banking secrecy, until now considered virtually ironclad, by signing an international agreement…
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